"majuscule" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from French majuscule, from Latin maiusculus.",
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        "A capital letter, especially one used in ancient manuscripts."
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        "(countable) A capital letter, especially one used in ancient manuscripts."
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          "ref": "1951, Arthur Calder-Marshall, The Magic of My Youth, R. Hart-Davis, page 111",
          "text": "Up to this point, Loveday appeared to be an exceptionally typical undergraduate, in that he wrote in majuscule what his fellows scribbled in lower case.",
          "type": "quotation"
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          "text": "But it is far from impossible that a scribe writing in minuscule should choose majuscule for a correction at this point: for example, if he had written u for n the only way to avoid all misunderstanding might be to indicate the correction with a capital letter.",
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          "ref": "1975, Aubrey Diller, The Textual Tradition of Strabo’s Geography: With Appendix, the Manuscripts of Eustathius’ Commentary on Dionysius Periegetes, A. M. Hakkert, page 47",
          "text": "Many of these strips are palimpsest and bear earlier writing in majuscule and old minuscule.",
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        "(uncountable) Capital letters."
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